Water-motor.



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1,085,703, Patented Feb. 3, 1914.

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WATER MOTOR. APPLIOATION FILED OCT. 16, 1911.

Patented Feb. 3, 1914.

lnvntor I r I Attorneys J. B. ROCHELLE. WATER MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 16, 1911.

Patented Feb. 3, 1914.

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Witnesses Attorneys arnn' FTQE.

WATER-MOTOR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH B. ROCHELLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful VVater-Hotor, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in water motors, in which the motor mechanism thereof is composed of alternately operated vertically reciprocatory water receiving buckets, the primary object of the present invention being the provision of mechanism operated by the buckets for filling the same at the extreme upward movement thereof and for emptying the same at the extreme lower movement thereof and for utilizing the power generated by the de scending filled bucket for imparting either an intermittent reciprocatory or a rotary movement to any object, the present structure being especially adapted for application to power clocks, displaymechanisms or amusement devices.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of the complete mechanism. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the main drive gears. Fig. 5 is a sectional view through one of the stationary tanks. Fig. 6 is a similar view through one of the vertically movable buckets. Fig. 7 is a sectional view of a portion of the lower receiving tank.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 10 designates the supporting framework which consists of the longitudinally disposed members or bars 11 and the transversely disposed members or bars 12. This structure 10 supports a plurality of vertically disposed guides 14, which are held in the proper spaced relation by means of braces or struts 15, the upper ends of the guides being connected to support the horizontal platform 17. The main water tank 18 is mounted upon uprights 19 and is carried by Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 16, 1911.

Patented Feb. 3,1914. Serial No. 654,852.

' the platform 17 and in order that said tank 18 may be constantly supplied with water and a level maintained therein, a supply pipe 20 is led from any source of supply, as for instance a reservoir or a pressure water system. The tank 18 as clearly shown is provided with the discharge pipe 21 which is connected to a feed pipe 22 to supply water to a plurality of stationary tanks 24. These tanks 24 are arranged at two ends of the platform 17 and are constructed as particularly shown in detail in Fig. 5.

The partition 33 is disposed horizontally of the tank 24 and divides the same into an upper introduction chamber 31 and a lower receiving and discharging chamber 32, there being a port 34 forming a communicating medium between the chambers 31 and 32 so that under normal conditions both chambers 31 and 32 will be filled with water. A spider 35 is carried by the partitions 33 and has mounted for reciprocation therein the valve stem 36, which carries upon its lower end the valve 34 which is disposed to close the port 34 from below and as will presently appear.

Mounted Within the outlet apertures 39 in the bottom of the tank 24 and leading from the lower chamber 32 are a plurality of guiding discharge cylinders or spouts 38, which as shown are cont-rolled by the respective disk valves 37 and 40 which are normally held closed by means of the pendant weight 41. Thus under normal conditions the chambers 31 and 32 are filled with Water, the valve 34 being in its lowermost or open position, while the valves 37 and 40 are closed, thus retaining the water within the tank 24.

By this construction it will be seen that when the cross oar 45 of the appended bucket engages the weight 41 of the valve 37, that said valve 37 will be raised water rushing from the compartment 30 of the auxiliary tank, the valve 37 being continually raised until it engages the lower end 59 of the stem of the valve 34, said valve 34 being elevated so as to engage the lower side of the partition 33 and close the port 34 therethrough thus preventing the water from flowing from the upper chamber 31 into the chamber 30 during the filling of the bucket, the water, however, flowing through the pipe 22 into the upper chamber 31. As soon as the bucket has been filled and starts to descend, the valve 37 will deroe scend to closing position while the valve 34 will descend to open position and thus permit the water within the chamber 31 to flow through the port 34 into the chamber 32, thus permitting both chambers 31 and 32 to be filled ready for the next filling ofascending or ascended bucket.

For vertical reciprocatory movement below each of the respective intermediate supplying tanks, is mounted a motor bucket 42, the detail construction of which is clearly shown in Fig. 6. Each bucket is provided with the sheaved projections 43 which are disposed to engage the respective guides 14 which provide a means for permitting the said buckets '42 to alternately move down and up in a vertical position within the superstructure 10 from beneath their respective tanks 24 to the respective receiving ends of the receiving tank 60, the detail structure of which will presently appear.

Each bucket 42 is provided with a sealing cover which is provided with the inlet apertures 45, each aperture having disposed diametrically thereacross a bar 45, the purpose of which will presently appear. Connected to the cover and surrounding the respective receiving apertures 45 is a directing cylinder 44, which is of greater diameter than the discharge cylinders 38 of the tank 24, both of the respective cylinders 44 and 38 being disposed for telescopic positioning when the bucket 42 is in its uppermost position as clearly shown at the left in Fig. 1. When the bucket is in this position, the respective cross bars 45 having engaged the pendant weight 41 of the valves 37 and 40, and such valves due to the engagement as aforesaid, are elevated so that the water within the chamber 32 of the selected tank 24 is permitted to flow through the ports 39 and the discharge spout 38 into and through the receiving apertures 45 of the uppermost bucket 42, the valve 37 at thi juncture having engaged the extended end 59 of the stem 36 of the valve 34 and so elevated the valve 34.to cause the same to close the port 34 of the partition 33 and thus prevent the flow of water from the chamber 31 into the chamber 32 until after the valve 37 has again been seated, this occurring when the bucket 42 has received its charge from the chamber 32 of the tank 24 and has started clownwardly upon its power stroke. As there are two of these buckets 42 working alternately, it is evident that the filled bucket will cause the elevation of the empty bucket, such thereaway from the cylindrical discharge spout 46, the valves 48 which are constructed similarly to the valves 40 being positioned to be normally held closed or as clearly shown in Fig. 7 by means of the stems 50 and 51 carrying the pendant actuating weights 52.

It is desirable to automatically release the water from the respective tanks or buckets 42 when the same are in the lowermost position as shown at the right in Fig. 1, and in. order to accomplish this, the discharge tank 60 which is disposed upon the base of the structure 10 and is of substantially the full length of the platform 17, is provided at each end with the receiving spout 61, which incloses each receiving aperture provided with the bridging cross bar 62, one

to each weight 52 and in alinement therewith so that when the bucket 42 descends due to the water therein, the respective wveights 52 will engage the respective cross ,bars 62, the weight of the bucket thus causing the valves 48 to be elevated to permit the water within the bucket 42 to be discharged through the spout 46 into the recushioned or relieved and the descending bucket will be brought to a gradual stop wvhile the ascending bucket will be in its uppermost posltion and receive water as before described.

In order to connect the respective buckets 42 so that the power generated due to the reciprocatory movement of the filled buckets may be utilized, a cable 54 has its respective terminals connected to the two buckets 42 and is threaded through the pulleys 52 and 53 carried by the under side of the platform 17, as clearly shown in Fig. l, the main portion of the cable being extended d0WI1-, wardly and crossed before passage around the drum 55, which is mounted freely for rotation upon the shaft 56 journaled transversely of the supporting frame to one side of the inlet end directly above and centrally of the discharge tank 60.

It will thus be seen that the reciprocatory movement of the respective buckets due to the rise and fall thereof, will through the cable 54 transmit an oscillatory movement 2 upon the respectiveendsofthe shaft 56 adjacent to the ends of the drum 55 the two ratchets 63, which through the spring actuated pawl 63", as clearly shown in Fig. 4, and carried by the pulleys 63, transmit the desired rotary movement to the respective pulleys 63 so that the belts 71 and 72 disposed one upon each of the pulleys 63 receives the desired motion for operating any desired mechanism. By this means, it will be seen that an intermittent rotary movement is imparted to the respective pulleys 63 and their belts 71 and 72.

Inorder to control the supply of water through the conduit 22 and thus regulate the flow of water to the tanks 24, the valves 25 with the operating stems 26, and as clearly shown in Fig. 1, are provided.

If so desired, a single pulley 63 and belting 72 may be provided, in which case an intermittent movement is transmitted to any desired mechanism, the present device being so timed as to be used instead of a spring motor or weight motor and an escapement in a clock, so as to at the desired time impart movement to the minute and hour arbor thereof (not shown), and which is clearly apparent as the belt 72 may be connected to the main driving gear of the clock works and thus dispense with the spring orweight motor and the necessary mechanism such as the pendulum, the present water motor being regulated in its operation so as to in reality provide the power for actuating I the clock mechanism and at such intervals as to dispense with a pendulum.

What is claimed is A water motor, including a super-structure, a pressure fed tank at the upper end thereof, two dispensing tanks disposed to receive Water from the supply tank, one at each end thereof, a partition in each dispensing tank dividing the same into two superposed communicating chambers, a normally open valve in the partition, two gravity closed valves for controlling the flow of water from the lower chamber of the dispensing tank, one of said valves being disposed in alinement with the partition carried valve, two vertically reciprocatory buckets constituting the motor members mounted in the superstructure for movement to and from the respective dispensing tanks, each of said buckets being provided with two inlet openings for registration with the discharge valves of its respective dispensing tank, means carried by the bucket for engaging the discharge valves to open the discharge valves of the dispensing tank when the bucket is in its uppermost position, means carried by the valve of the partition of the dispensing tank for coacting with one of the discharge valves of the dispensing tank when open to close the partition carried valve, a plurality of discharge valves carried by each bucket, and means for operably connecting the buckets together whereby power may be utilized by the alternate up and down movement of the buckets and whereby the filled bucket will impart a vertical ascending motion to the empty bucket.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH B. ROCHELLE.

Witnesses:

W. A. LANDRY, A. NUNZ.

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